Spike Lee has a fondness for musical consistency. For "He Got Game," the director featured a soundtrack comprised of Public Enemy songs alongside the music compositions of famed composer Aaron Copland. "Red Hook Summer," Lee's latest film, is no different in its structure: Bruce Hornsby provides the film's score, while the soundtrack comes courtesy of rising star Judith Hill, who contributed ten songs to Lee's much ballyhooed return to Brooklyn.
Hill's collaboration with Lee began with the singer's connection to Michael Jackson. Hill performed with Jackson as a back-up singer on the This Is It world tour, and even sang with the pop icon on "I Can't Stop Loving You." (The performance was also featured in the film, "This Is It.") It was after Jackson's death, at a tribute to the late singer in Los Angeles, that Lee came up to Hill with a request.
"He said, 'I love your work and I saw you in Michael Jackson's film and I've got this movie coming up. Do you have songs to submit?'" Hill told HuffPost Entertainment. "That's really how it all started."
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